Cigarette holder



Feb. 17, 1931. J W, SCHEHL 1,792,765

CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed Jan. l50, 1929 pf2/for eg i UNITED STA PatentedFeb. 17, 1931 TEs JOSEPH W. .SCHEHL OFIAOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF TO `LEONARD RUEGG, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA invention hasto do with cigarette orf Fig. 3; and

' 6 music stand or the like.l

of novelty ofmy invention resides in the fact' CIGARETTE HOLDER i Y.Appli-cation led January 30, 1929. `Serial No. $36,084:.v

cigarr holders, and' more `particularly such holders as may be readilyand easily attached to and detachedV from a piecel of furniture,

that the device is so designed and constructed that the holder portionmay be collapsed l, when not in use so that it may be completely Mg10out of the way; and if it be desired to removeV the holder from thepiece of furniture, the

holder may be collapsed to a convenient carrying size.

How these and various other objects andV accomplishments are obtainedthrough my invention will best be understood from the following detaileddescription of a preferred and particular adaptation.

While the respects in which my holder may be used to great convenienceand utility are numerous, I shall select its use in connection with amusic stand for purposes of descrip-- tion and illustration.

It is well known that when a musician, for instance, in the course ofhis work,ldesires to indulge in a smoke, he is usually in a. place wherea smoking stand or ash tray are not conveniently at hand, and when hedesires to rest his lighted cigarette or cigar for a moment, he is at aloss for a place to rest it.'

Whereas if he is equipped with one of my de-A vices he may readilyattach the device to thev standard of his music stand; and when thedevice is not in use he may tilt-it alongside his music stand to aposition where it is almost flush with the standard; and when hedismantles and collapses his music stand, he may A further feature" Fig.4 is a plan viewof the device shown in Fig. V5 is a side view showinghow a music stand may be collapsed around the device'of Figs. 1 and 2."In Fig. 1 I show a spring clip 10 which is utilized for attaching andyieldably holding the device to astandard 16, such for instance as thestandard of a music stand. Clip 10`is preferably formed ofa piece of'spring metal formed into a U-shape, the attaching flange portion of theclip being 'curved as at 10a so as to conform to a circular standard orthe like to securely hold thel clip in place. Of course ifthe springclip 10 is made to grip a flat surface, such as a tableedge, thecurvature 10a may be eliminated, as better fillustrated in Fig. f

Pivoted to clip 10, by pivot pin 11, `is a trough or holderr12, more orless semi-circular in form, which forms the portion of the device forholding the cigarette or cigar. Y The side walls of trough 12 are cutaway as at 12a to facilitate the grasping of the cigar or cigarette withthe ngers. Holder 12has at its Ainner or attaching end two lips 13through which pivot pin 11 is placed to pivotally atv tach the trough12'to the attaching clip 10. These lips t over the clip 10 and the pivotpin 11 is then passed through the lips 13 and clip 10, making itpossible to tilt the trough 12 veritcally upwardlyr as shown in Fig. 2.End 14 of trough 12,A when the device is in its eX- tended or operativeposition, abuts clip 10 t0 form a stop"against further vertical down-'ward movement'of trough '12.

Pivot -pinv 11 may be headed at each end vafterbeing inserted throughlips 13 and clip 10, or it may have a head at one end andbescrew-threaded at the other and a lock nut on its screw-threaded end. Ihave illustrated the pinasbeing headed at each end as'I find thatconstruction to be more economical of manufacture.

When the device is in use it is in its eX- tended form best shown inFig. 1;.and as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. When the device is notbeing used, it may he easily tilted to an unobstructing positionbymerely tilting the trough portion 12 upwardly against the post orstandard 16 of the article to which .it is attached; the lips 13 maygrip clip 10 sufficiently tightly and resiliently as to hold trough 12in its upward collapsed or inoperative position until tilted back tooperative position by manual force.

To attach the device to an article such as a music stand, the springclip portion 10 is merely forced on the standard 16 and, being made ofspring metal, the clip 10 yieldably grips the standard, the curvedportion 10a conforming to the shape of the standard to prevent the clip10 itself from tilting vertically and also insuring a firmer grip on thestandard.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated how a music stand may be collapsed aroundmy holder. There I have shown a standard 16 having collapsible feet F.By tilting the trough portion 12 of my device vertically upwardly to aposition against standard 16, the feet F may then be collapsed aroundthe standard and holder as shown in dotted lines. I have hereillustrated only a particular type of music stand, but it will of coursebe obvious that my device may be used in connection with stands whichcollapse in various other manners.

In Figs. 8 and 4 I have illustrated a modified form of device, adaptedmore particularly to be attached to a flat surface, such as a card tableedge, and made to tilt horizontally. In this form it will be noted thatthe spring clip 10 has straight flanges 10?), and while the trough 12 ispivoted to the clip 10 in the same manner as before described, thetrough portion 12 is so formed that it may be tilted horizontallyalongside the table edge and at the same time the portion of the troughadapted to hold the cigarette or cigar will be upright and in holdingposition.

In this form the portion 12b of trough 12 is shaped with its portion 14abutting clip 10 in the same manner described in connection with thevertically tilting form; but in this latter form the pivot pin 11extends through the lips 13 and clip 10 vertically instead ofhorizontally as in the previously described form, and thus the portion120 must be formed with its side-walls extending upwardly so thatportion 120 may be capable of holding a cigar or cigarette. In Figs. 3and 4 the edge of a table or other flat surface is shown at 20, theflanges of clip member 10 resting horizontally on the table edge, andthe trough member 12 being pivoted to clip 10 so as to swing in ahorizontal plane.

It will be understood, of course, that member 12 may be of any desiredshape; for instance it may be cup-shaped so as to form an ash receiver.

I claim:

1. A holder of the character described, comprising a clamping member toyieldably clamp a vertically extending standard, and a holding memberpivotally mounted upon said clamping member so as to swing in a verticalplane; said holding member having a portion adapted to abut the clampingmember and thereby stop the downward vertical movement of said holdingmember when it has reached ay horizontal position.

2. A holder of the character described, comprising a U-shaped yieldingclamping member, a portion of which is shaped to conform to a verticallyextending circular sta-ndard a holding member, semi-circular incrosssection, pivotally mounted upon said clamping member and movable ina vertical plane; said holding member having a portion adapted to abutthe clamping member to arrest the downward vertical movement of saidholding member at a predetermined position.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my namethis 12th day of December, 1928.

JOSEPH W. SCHEHL.

